From 1836, advertisements for the annual Cornwall Almanack appeared in the pages of the Cornwall Chronicle newspaper late in the preceding year and/or in the first months of the year.
In early years the Almanack seems to have been published as a separate work. An advertisement on the 13 February 1836 describes the Almanack as '[p]rinted on a large sheet of Drawing Paper - with Code of Signals ... coloured 4s, 4d. Plain 2s.' (3). On 6 January 1838, the 1838 Almanack was advertised as 'now on Sale, at the Office of this Paper. Besides the usual Kalender, it contains – the Signals inuse at the Windmill Hill Station; —Court or Requests Fees;—Post Office Regulation ; Mail, Coach, and Passage Boats arrangements; Table to Calculate Wages; Rates of Pilotage, &c. Price to Subscribers — with Signals colored — 2s. ; Plain—1s. ; to non subscribers, 3s. colored ; Plain 2s'. (3)
On the 28 November 1846 the Cornwall Chronicle announced that the 'excellence of Mr. [James] Wood's Almanack for 1847 has induced an arrangement between the proprietor of this journal and Mr. Wood, by which the [Cornwall] Almanack will be issued as a supplement to the Cornwall Chronicle, and sold at the sum of one shilling each ...' (921)
AustLit has not yet established whether James Wood was involved in the publishing of the Cornwall Almanack. The Cornwall Chronicle may have simply withdrawn from publishing the Almanck as a separate work, but continued to publish it at the end of each year as a stand alone supplement, mostly to subscribers.
The appearance of the Almanack as a supplement to the Cornwall Chronicle seems to have continued until the late 1870s. On the 3 January 1870 a short paragraph in the Chronicle newspaper states that 'with the present number of the Cornwall Chronicle we issue to subscribers our Almanack for the year 1870 which has been carefully compiled and will be found to contain much useful information, we shall feel obliged if subscribers will intimate any omissions in the delivery of the Almanack ... a few extra copies will be printed for sale.' (2). After 1878 (1879 issue) the Cornwall Almanack seems to have ceased.
The Almanack seems not to have had any literary content but towards the end of its life may have been part of or presented with an illustrated supplement. According to 'Christmas Arrangements' published in the newspaper on 12 December 1878, 'readers will be presented on Christmas day with the Cornwall Chronicle sheet almanac for 1879 and also with a large double illustrated supplement containing Australian and New Zealand sketches by well known colonial literateurs.'
AustLit has not yet established whether any copies of the Cornwall Almanack are held in Australian libraries.
Sources: 'Cornwall Almanacks, for 1836' The Cornwall Chronicle (13 February 1836): 3; 'Cornwall Almanack for 1838' The Cornwall Chronicle (9 December 1837): 3; The Cornwall Almanack' The Cornwall Chronicle (6 January 1838): 3; 'Our Almanack' The Cornwall Chronicle (28 November 1846): 921; 'Cornwall Chronicle Almanack 1870' The Cornwall Chronicle (3 January 1870): 2; 'Christmas Arrangements: The "Cornwall Chronicle" Almanac and Illustrated Supplement' The Cornwall Chronicle (12 December 1878): 2
